Though I’ve never been told, I consider myself to be occasionally (though unintentionally) pedantic and pretentious, correcting the grammar of friends and family in conversation, answering Jeopardy! questions out loud, laughing during Frasier, and using roman numerals where they aren’t necessarily needed.

3. Pass the award along to 15 deserving blog buddies.

In the words of a certain robot from Futurama: “Like most of life’s problems, this one can be solved with bending.” . . . the rules, that is. I’m afraid I’m going to have to make 15 a running total, as I really can’t think of that many blogs of which I’m a dedicated reader. But for now, I’ll send the award along to these:

On a related note (let me just put on my lab coat and glasses): I briefly attempted to trace the origins of the Irresistibly Sweet award. Unfortunately, it’s somewhat chain letteresque, and you don’t have to do much math to know that 15 people sending to 15 people, and so on is a lot of awards. So, I was unable (read: too lazy) to find the award’s creator.

However! I did make an interesting discovery. And that is that the award seems to have mutated over time, resulting in several different “strains”, if you will. I’ve put them in the order in which I imagine them changing.

On Strain #4, we’re actually lucky enough to have caught a mutation in progress! You only have to trace it one level to the previous recipient to see it change.